Title - Just a Piggy Bank Author: Mayer, Mercer Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre Little Critter gets a piggy bank from Grandma and Grandpa—now he has to learn how to save his money instead of spending it all! Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 188 1.9 360 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 20 Total # of Words 493 # of Different Words 166 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 315 63.9% # of Hi freq words 69 41.6% % of Long Sentences 0 Low Freq occurs 3 0.6% # of Low freq words 3 1.8% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: Some support Dialog: Two speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Vocabulary: Few decoding/definition issues Language: Few descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Blend of written/oral Features Character development Topics Work Money Saving *Economics Low Frequency Words deserved grocery safekeeping